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Digital violence is not a design flaw
From synthetic images created in a school to the automatic reuse of photographs on Instagram. An anthropological account of how platforms and institutions distribute harm and the work of repair.
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AIthropology Lab
Exploring the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Who Gets Paid When Kiswahili Becomes Data
DataHive Africa is testing a linguistic infrastructure in Tanzania based on paid contributions, community review and consent. The project reveals who speaks, who validates and how value is distributed when everyday language enters artificial intelligence.
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Anthropology of development
From Truman to Pax Silica
How development returned as technological security
Visual anthropology and AI
Cinema ParAIso
Artificial intelligence is reshaping audiovisual production, but the debate is not only about generated images. It affects labour, archives, languages, rights, representation and the power to decide which stories circulate.
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The Besieged People
How populism turns distrust into an infrastructure of power across platforms, AI, and democratic life.